SATISH HANDA
Information reveals, as many as 970 unauthorised residential colonies in over 2642 acres area were developed by land mafias in nearly 70 towns in Haryana state in past six years and 428 FIRs were registered with police. Notices to demolish illegal structures in these colonies were sent to 967 plot holders by municipal corporations and municipal committees in the state. In-spite of action and warnings to developers, more and more unauthorized colonies are been developed by mafias even today attracting buyers with offers to have their own residential houses without seeking approval from the government, which not only causing heavy revenue loss to the government but also inconvenience to buyers in getting electricity, water and sewerage connections, besides lacking basic developmental facilities like construction of roads, drains and street light during night.
Ruling government in Haryana state when came to power in 2014 had assured nearly 8.5 lakh families in the state to have their own houses by the year 2019 and Haryana Housing Board has been able to construct only 83000 houses so far, which is yet far away from the target fixed by the government. As such wish to have own house compelling people in the state to knock at the property developers attracting them with rosy pictures to purchase land in such unauthorized colonies. Recently, chief minister Haryana Manohar Lal Khatter said that state government aims every homeless family in the state should have their own house to live and implemented nearly a dozen different schemes to own a house. He said, survey completed in this regard revealed that due to technical problems faced in different schemes fixed target could not be achieved in time causing delay in achieving target as such now decision has been taken to implement all schemes under a roof enabling every family to have own house as assured by the government.
According to data collected from various districts in the state, Kurukshetra tops in having record number of 102 unauthorized colonies developed in 299 acre area in past six years, followed by Ambala having 87 unauthorized colonies developed in 142 acre area ranking second position in the state. Information further reveals that 83 unauthorized colonies have been illegally developed at Rohtak, 78 colonies developed at Gurugram, 63 colonies developed at Faridabad, 61 colonies developed each at Palwal and Kaithal, 59 colonies developed at Panipat, 51 colonies developed atYamunanagar, 43 colonies developed at Jind, 38 colonies developed at Fatehabad, 37 colonies developed at Karnal, 32 colonies developed each at Panchkula and Hisar, 29 colonies developed at Mohindergarh, 19 colnies developed at Sirsa, 15 colonies developed at Jhajjar, 12 colonies developed at Rewari, 11 colonies developed at Nuh (Mewat), 10 colonies developed at Bhiwani and 8 colonies developed at Charkhi Dadri by the developers without having approval from state government.
Surprisingly, officers of Municipal Corporations and Municipal Committees in the state took no action against the developers sold plots illegally all over in the state and silently watching illegal development of colonies without having approval from the government and took no action against such developers for the reasons best known to them and question arises why no action was taken by senior government bureaucrats against concerned officers caused heavy revenue loss to the government and inconvenience to those constructed structures in these unauthorized colonies and in-spite of spending huge amount on purchase of plots and construction thereon they are still living like a tenant in the absence of registration of house in their name.
